Lifeguards Collection

Berwick Hills Baths, Middlesbrough, 14th October 1996. Last day of swimming before closure. Lifeguard

Wallasey beach patrol, under the direction of Mr C Mitchell, Wallasey Baths Manager, go into full scale rescue training at New Brighton, Wirral, Merseyside. 14th June 1954

Lifeguards practising their saving skills in June 1965

Tom Jones never had any trouble from girls clad in bikinis. But we re not talking about the singer. Instead, its Tom Jones the lifeguard, who is featured in todays archive picture from July 1972

Student Stephanie Keenen who has just started work on Roker beach at Sunderland as the towns first female lifeguard in August 1972

The kiss of life for Philip Atess of B Division, Darlington from Houghton-le-Spring police woman Jane Hinde during a police lifesaving exercise in June 1983

Volunteers clamber into the new life raft during a mock evacuation of the cross Tyne passenger ferry between North and South Shields in September 1992

Lifeguards Stephe Arnott, Eric Oliver and Stephen Higgins at King Edwards Bay, Tynemouth in August 1977

Two Competitors in the heats of the Nation Lifeguard Championship held on the South Foreshore, at South Shields reach the shore during a mock rescue from the icy North Sea in August 1972

Lib - In late September 1972, Tynemouth parks and sands committee decided that because the summer seemed longer than usual, they would extend the lifeguards spell of duty

Lifeguards getting a grip on things in a Sunderland Harbour lefesaving demonstration in August 1971

The scene at Cullercoats during a police lifesaving competition in June 1983

Some North East Lifeguards doing their Baywatch impression in July 1995

Lifeguards James Elwood (left) and Thomas Todd with megaphones which can pick up cries from swimmers in trouble in June 1973

Members of the Whickham Voluntary Lifeguards who patrol the South Beach at South Shields in June 1976. Bottom, left to right, Mary Edwards, Susan Gibson and Gillian Davison

Lifeguard National Champions, Whickham mens team show the style that won them the title recently. Ronnie Corbett is carried by (left to right) Michael Edwards, Alan Coxon, Peter Collings

Lifeguard Thomas Todd of the Inshore Rescue boat at Roker with the tow way megaphones which can pick up cries from swimmers in trouble in June 1973

Members of the Northumbria Police Lifesaving Team, Jo Harnett, left, and Julie More " rescue" Sergt. Mick Wilkinson during a lifesaving exercise on Tynemouth beach in July 1980

This lifeguard leaps into action during an exercise in July 1995

Rookie lifeguards go through their paces at Tynemouth Longsands in August 1997. Brothers Ross, 6, and Andrew Crosby, 10, Vivienne Neeve, 9, and Lifeguard Gordon Ingram

The Whitburn Volunteer Life Brigade in June 1868

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